Not Your Average Air Travel Stories: Week of Feb. 4

ATM belly: Police arrest woman at a Panama airport then recover more than $31,000 from inside her stomach. That’s right, inside. As for how it got there (or got out), no one’s saying. She was nabbed after exhibiting “suspicious behavior.” I’ll bet.

Stay home: Nemo blizzard grounds thousands of flights but the good news is, no change fees. When the snow ends, see FareCompare – we’ll get you outta town on a cheap flight.

Shut up, kids! AirAsiaX now has child-free quiet zones (yes, there’s a fee for that). Reporter asks, “How did it take so long to come up with such a great idea?” It didn’t. Rick Seaney already told us about pet bans and baby-free zones.

Broken dreams: 787 still grounded. The New Yorker’s take: “[Boeing] turned over the design, the engineering, and the manufacture of entire sections of the [Dreamliner] to some 50 ‘strategic partners’,” building less than 40% of the plane itself. Any response, Boeing?

Wait, Dreamliner flies again! Don’t get excited – it’s just one plane, and just one flight – the aircraft in question was in Texas for a paint job and will now go home to Boeing in Everett, Wash.